Body-hanger for carriages.



No. 653,607. Patented luly I0, 1900. S. R. BAILEY.

BODY HANGER FOR CARRIAGES.

(Application filed Feb. 3. 1900.)

(No Model.)

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s. n. BAILEY. BODY HANGER FDR CARRMGES.

(Application filed Feb. 3. i900.

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WLtq ssEs 0., PNOTO-LI'THOY. WASHINGTON a c UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

SAMUEL R. BAILEY, OF AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

BODY-HANGER FOR CARRIAGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 653,607, dated July 10, 1900.

Application filed February 3, 1900. Serial No. 3,765- -(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL R. BAILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Amesbury, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Body-Hanger Devices for Carriages, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements on the patent granted to me December 7, 1897, No. 595,133, for body-hangers for carriages, and it is carried 'out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,where- 1n Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a carriage provided with my improved bodyhanger device. Fig. 2 represents a top plan view of the improved body-hanger shown as attached to the upper portion of an elliptic leaf-spring. Fig. 3 represents a side view of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 represents an enlarged crosssection on the line 44 shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 represents a rear view of the middle portion of the metal body-loop. Figs. 6 and 7 represent in section and elevation a modification of the attachment of the body loop and flange that is secured to the top portion of the elliptic leaf-spring. Figs. 8 and 9 represent in section and elevation another modification of such attachment, and Figs. 10 and 11 represent in section and elevation still another modification of said attachment.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the differentrparts of the drawings.

In the drawing Fig. l, A represents a carriage-body, as usual.

B B are the elliptic leaf-springs connected in any well-known manner to the res ective axles of the forward and rear wheels 0, as is common in vehicles.

My improved body-hanger consists of two partsnamely, a metal body-loop D and a metal lip or flange Emade separate and brazed or welded together, as will hereinafter be more fully shown and described. The lip or flange E is secured to the top of the leaf-spring B, preferably by means of fastening-bolts e e, as shown.

D D are the hanger-brackets, made integral with the body-loop D, which latter is ar ranged on one side of and free of the carriagesprings for the purpose of enabling said springs to be compressed to their fullest extent without interference with said body-loop like that shown and described in my aforesaid patent.

In practice I make a recess (1 in the bodyloop D, into which is fitted the projecting end of the lip or flange E, as shown in the drawings, after which said parts are brazed or welded firmly together. In Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 such recess d is shown as being made about midway between the top and bottom edges of the body-loop D; but this exact arrangement is not material, as I may make such recess on the under side of the body-loop and adapted to receive the projecting end of the lip or flange E, as represented in Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, without departing from the es= senceof my invention.

In all the constructions shown it will be noted that the recess dis formed in the bodyloop D, so as to provide end shoulders, and is of the same width as the lip or flange E, so that the latter fits snugly therein throughout its entire width. Thus when the parts are brazed or welded together they are practically integral and form a rigid connection wherein endwise or lateral displacement is practically impossible.

In my aforesaid patent the body-loop and the lip or flange Were made integral but this is very costly, as ordinary commercial iron cannot be used for making the body-hanger as one solid single piece. By making the body-loop as a separate piece from such lip or flange I can readily make the body-loop from ordinary commercial iron at a reduced cost in labor and material as compared with aconstruction in which the body-loop and lip or flange are made integral. The parts af ter being welded or brazed together are prac tically as firmly and rigidly secured as if originally made integral.

What I wish to secure by Letters Patent transverse recess or cut-out portion d, formed my hand in presence of two subscribing wittherein intermediate its ends, the free end of nesses.

said lip or flan e fitting closely within the i said recess or c ht-out portion of the body- SAMUEL BAILEY 5 loop and welded or brazed therein, substan- \Vitnesses:

tially as described. ALBAN ANDRE'IN,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set THOMAS J. MURPHY. 

